Gold in Firebox
An insurance inspector who had just returned from a long trip in north-eastern Victoria found gold adhering to the clinkers when he…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1942
97 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 4 of 5
Charcoal Gas Yields Gold
When a Melbourne insurance inspector cleaned out his gas producer firebox a few days ago he noticed a yellow substance adhering to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Strikes Go on Sydney
Eight mines were idle to-day, resulting in a production loss of 9650 tons of coal. In addition to eight mines idle through strikes to-day, 1000 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Anarchy and Disloyalty." Youths Cause Coal Stoppages
"Anarchy and disloyally" among a section of minors are attacked in strongly-worded resolution passed by the Minors' Southern Delegate Board…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →State Coal Mine
The Acting Premier and Minister for Mines, Mr. Baddeley, deplores the condition into which the State coalmine at Lithgow has drifted, the daily…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Coal Conference Showdown Expected Sydney
Every coal mining district m N.S.W. is represented at a vitally important coal mining conference, which opened in Sydney this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Conference. "Showdown Expected." SYDNEY
Every coal mining district in New South Wales is represented at the vitally important, coal mining conference which opened in Sydney this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Warden's Court Taree, Monday, 20th JULY Before Mr. G. W. Brown, Mining Warden
George Gosford Beattie applied for the suspension of the labor conditions on his Mining Lease in the parish of Bootoowa. Mr.H. W. Cowan appeared…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sulphur Mining
American news from Houston, Texas, says that with the sources of most of the rest of the world's supply of sulphur cut off because of the war, the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Strike Penalties Coal Miners' Pledge
The Commonwealth Government's new National Security Regulations to prevent unauthorised stoppages on the coalfields were gazetted on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. Curtin and the Miners
With the simplification of taxation in a single tax for the Commonwealth to the elimination of State taxing opposition, the course now…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Miners Sent Home Others Refuse to Work Sydney
The first operation of the penalty provisions in the new coal regulations may be applied to Pelton miners, on the northern district, which was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Plastic Buttons Made From Coal for War Time Service
About 1,200 million buttons moulded from plastic materials are wanted for the "utility" suits designed for war-time wear in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Colliery Hold-up Owners and Men to Be Prosecuted Sydney, Friday
Under National Security Regulations, owners of the Pelton Colliery are to be charged in the Arbitration. Court with failing to keep their mine open…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coarse-grained Gold
Tinonee August 17, 1872 A sample of coarse-granied gold weighing about four pennyweights was exhibited here to-day by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Red Cross Society. Miners 'Adopt Australian Prisoner of War
A group of miners from the South Waratah Mine at Wallsend have adopted an Australian prisoner of war and have sent their first payment…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →To Mine for Oil
Mr. Duncan, Metropolitan Mining Warden, sat in Gloucester on Wednesday afternoon to consider an application by Edwin James Dalley…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To Mine for Oil
Mr. Duncan, Metropolitan Mining Warden, sat in Gloucester on Wednesday afternoon to consider an application by Edwin James Dalley…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →No Spuds — Mine Idle
Approximately half the men employed at Burwood mine in the north stopped work on Thursday. Mine officials said this was a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Gold," 100 Her Cent. Brass
A veteran news photographer, of New York, Jimmy Hare, who in 1907 received a gold medal from the then Japanese Emperor, asked a jeweller…
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